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From: Peter Brookesmith Mendoza <DarkSecretPB@compuserve.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 19:44:36 -0400
Fwd Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:07:15 -0400
Subject: Re: Max Burns Hoax Exposed


With the compliments of the Duke of Mendoza:

>Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:18:04 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Brian Cuthbertson <brianc@freeside.fc.net>
>To: updates@globalserve.net
>Subject: Re: Max Burns Hoax Exposed


>Any post by a group with such a self-congratulatory name is
>immediately suspect anyway, at least to this Texan.

The name is a neat pun, one immediately apparent to those with a
classical education and a background in literary criticism,
typical of British wit, and no Texans - who could teach the
British polity many useful things, given the opportunity, and
ears that would hear - should feel demeaned if it passed over
their heads.

Genius loci: Latin for 'the spirit of the place'.

Loki: one of several variant spellings for the horrid creature
who, in Scandinavian mythology, gnaws away destructively at the
roots of Yggdrasil, the tree of life. This figure appears in
Wagner's Ring cycle and in more modern reincarnations in DH
Lawrence's "Women in Love" and (I think...) in Tolkien's "Lord
of the Rings".

Mmm. I guess you could say that wit of this kind is a little
self-consciously clever, and so by extension
self-congratulatory.

Bloody hilarious post, though, whoever's hoaxing whom. O my
sides, as someone said.

best wishes
Punctatum D. Misereri
Whatever That Means